Summary: A young girl from New York City starts at Horizon with a secret that could change things forever at the school.
Chapter 1:
Peter Scarbrow walked into his office to greet the newest student at Mt. Horizon, Lucy Burnes. Lucy seemed like a fairly normal kid, compared to the other students at Horizon. She lived with her mother and step father in New York. Her father had left her and her mother when she was 2 and it had a negative influence on her. She grew up with her mom and step dad, who were alays drunk and fighting. Sometimes hitting Lucy or each other. Lucy took drugs, smoked, and left home for days at a time and no one seemed to care. She was on her own and she could take care of herself- or so she thought. One day she was in a bad part of the city and she witnessed a gang shooting. They left the young boy dead in the street. When they saw that Lucy had seen the whole thing they immediatly beat her and left her, too, in the street. But unlike the boy next to her Lucy was still alive. Sometimes she wished she never survived because then she wouldn't be in the situation she was in at that very minute.
Peter sat on the desk and started examining Lucy stuff- searching for drugs or cigarettes. While he was searching he told her all the rules of the school. No drugs, cigarettes, drinking, no relationships, curfew at 11. But Lucy wasn't listening. She was staring at Peter . . . he looked familiar to her but she couldn't put the face to anyone she knew. She was broken from her train of thought by the door opening and a blond haired women walking in. "This is Sophie Becker- she's going to show you where you'll be sleeping. Soph, I'm putting her with the Cliffhangers." Sophie nodded and led Lucy out of the office.
They went outside and Sophie started talking to her, "You're going to like the girls in your cabin. Some of them are a lot like you."
Lucy had her arms crossed over her stomach, "What would you know about me?" Sophie decided to leave it at that. A few minutes later they reached Lucy's cabin. Inside were six beds and five girls on top of five of them. They introduced themselves as Juliette, Katherine, Daisy, Tia, and Sarah. Lucy ignored them and threw her stuff by her bed then flopped on top of the bed. Sophie soon left and Juliette came over to Lucy, "Hi." she said, simply.
"Hi." Lucy made her voice sound sarcastic and rude at the same time.
Juliette ignored the tone and said, "Horizon's not so bad once you give it a shot."
Daisy half smiled and said, "Yeah they made me Daisy Lipenowski again."
"Who were you before?" Lucy wanted to know.
"Daisy Graves," She seemed proud of this fact but also a bit amused with it, "And aren't we all glad she's gone."
"Whatever." Katherine added to the conversation, "And Peter and Sophie are pretty okay, too. I mean, they're pushy but not overly pushy."
Lucy pictured Peter again but this time a memory cam with it. She was playing on the floor in her apartment and someone came and picked her up. The memory faded after a minute and she asked the girls, "What about guys. Are there any cool ones?"
Juliette and Kat smiled, "Well," Juliette told her, "There's five guys in the Cliffhangers- Ezra, Scott, Auggie, Mark and Nate."
"Nate and Sarah are together, though." Charli said much to Sarah's embarassment.
Kat laughed and added, "Yeah, and Auggie and Juliette are together and so are Daisy and Freakin."
"We are not! How many times do I have to tell you?!", Daisy half yelled at Kat, who just rolled her eyes.
"Who's Freakin?" Lucy asked.
Sarah giggled and said, "Ezra. His last name is Friedkin so everyone calls him Freakin. I think Shelby started it, didn't she?"
Daisy's face darkened but she shrugged it off, "I think it was a nick name he had before he came her."
Later that night Lucy lay in bed thiniking about everything that was going on. She rolled onto her side and was struck with another suddem memory. She was in the park being spun in someone's arm's. The same person that picked her up in the other memory. But soon that memory was gone, too. While she was asleep she had a dream- more like a nightmare, really. She was sitting on her bed when she was little almost asleep and the man walked in again. He sat on her bed and stroked her hair saying, "I'll see you soon. I love you, angel." When she woke up she suddenly knew who the man was . . . her father.